Communications Lead (AI Search)

Location: Berlin, Germany; onsite

Salary: €85K–€105K annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI search platform helping marketing teams understand and improve how their brands are discovered, represented, and recommended by AI assistants. Founded in January 2025, the Series A company has reached $20M ARR and 4,000 paying customers, with more than 100 employees across Berlin and New York.

What you will do

• Define the two or three ideas hirify.global should own, including the supporting evidence and ongoing narrative.
• Turn research and data into industry reports, founder content, journalist briefs, event premises, campaigns, and other audience-specific stories.
• Set the social and founder communications strategy across LinkedIn and other channels, aligning it with product marketing and launches.
• Write and edit high-stakes founder, expert, press, campaign, and research communications; brief contributors and maintain quality standards.
• Lead founder and expert communications, including talking points, interview preparation, opinion pieces, stage remarks, and LinkedIn posts.
• Develop press and publisher strategy, pitch journalists, distinguish independent coverage from sponsored placements, and improve how AI assistants describe hirify.global.

Requirements

• Experience leading an integrated launch at a B2B technology company, taking original research or a complex product from raw evidence to a clear story shipped across channels.
• Fast, versatile writing ability across formats, including writing in another person's voice; recent work with a clearly identified contribution is required.
• Ability to evaluate metrics and determine which story withstands scrutiny from a sceptical reader.
• Hands-on experience pitching journalists and securing coverage.
• Experience building a communications function in an early- or growth-stage company, as the first or second person in the role.
• Ability to use AI for drafting, monitoring, and research while exercising judgment about where it should not write.
• Ability to work directly with founders, make decisions, and ship work.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a journalist or editor.
• Experience in search, SEO, analytics, martech, or data platforms.
• Established relationships with US marketing and technology trade press and relevant newsletter writers.
• Experience taking a European company's story into the US market.
• Experience directing a PR agency and evaluating which agency work is worth funding.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Growth and working directly with founders, product marketing, research, and content teams.
• Collaborative, high-energy in-office work environment in Berlin.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to define a new market category and make a significant impact.